Red Door’s receiving the top honor in the small business category made the annual San Diego SHRM Workplace Excellence Awards event held on November 11 particularly exciting for us. The San Diego Workplace Excellence Awards educate and enlighten San Diego business leaders on the contributions that exceptional HR practices make to the success and profitability of an organization. The event showcases the true value of the HR profession and the tremendous impact effective it has upon all operational aspects of a business enterprise.

This recognition is very special to us. The criteria aligns closely with our philosophies about HR practices and the impact they have on our overall success. The high caliber of the judges and respect we have for SHRM both on a local and national level validate our HR strategies.

We’re extremely proud of being consistently recognized as an organization that prioritizes the development and well being of our employees. Most significantly, it shows that we have an exceptional group of people who consistently commit to grow individually and as a team. Maintaining that culture and tailoring our HR initiatives to their changing needs directly benefits our ability to help our customers profit from the Web initiatives we undertake on their behalf.

Our goal is to continue to provide the tools and focus for employees to define their career paths and create their own opportunities to advance because of the successes they help create for our clients’ businesses.

Attention all of you creative gurus!! Red Door is seeking a contract Senior Art Director and Junior Designer to join our Creative Team. This is an opportunity to join an award-winning, growing digital agency with offices located in downtown San Diego, California with panoramic views of San Diego bay and Petco Park, and just north of downtown Denver, CO in the trendy RiNo district.

FREELANCE SENIOR ART DIRECTOR

Candidates must have interactive agency experience working with large brands and the ability to strategically guide clients from concept through production. He/she must also have an in-depth knowledge of emerging technologies and the ability to know when to leverage them effectively for our client’s business goals.

Ideal credentials:
* 5-7+ years of interactive agency experience
* Expert in the following programs – Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
* Experience working in Flash, Dreamweaver
* General understanding of Web 2.0/3.0

The ideal candidate demonstrates the following:
* Red Door’s core values (ie: 100% Jerk Free, Empower clients)
* Impressive portfolio that includes online advertising (rich media+), web site design and e-mail
* Ability to develop multiple, different looking designs that all align with the brief
* Ability to extend existing brands online when needed
* Strong knowledge of information architecture and usability
* Constant creative collaboration with all teams
* Ability to effectively delegate work
* Excellent presentation skills to both small and large groups
* Effective and fluent communication between internal teams as well as clients
* Good understanding of any external resources required to execute ideas
* Effective management of multiple deadlines and heavy workload

If you meet the above requirements please submit your resume with sample urls to
the url below:

http://www.reddoor.biz/contact/application/

Please note Sr. Art Director as the position you are interested in.

FREELANCE JUNIOR DESIGNER

Contractor should have a BA in Interactive or Graphic Design or equivalent experience. 1 to 2 years of agency experience is preferred. Requires working knowledge of Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Also requires thorough familiarity with MAC platform. Experience working in Flash and HTML based media is preferred, as well as an understanding of animation and motion design technologies. Please include portfolio links within your resume attachment.

If you meet the above requirements please submit your resume with sample urls to
the url below:

http://www.reddoor.biz/contact/application/

Please note Junior Designer as the position you are interested in.

ONLINE AD SPENDING EXPECTED TO RISE
br /Adweek IQ Daily Brief, Jan. 15, 2003
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br /Internet ad spending is expected to rise more than 7 percent in 2003, according to a full-year forecast from CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.
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br /Overall ad spending is expected to increase 3.3 percent in 2003 to $117.5 billion, according to CMR. “The spending growth seen in the last half of 2002 was clear evidence of a market rebound, and we believe the current economic upturn, while not robust will continue to be reflected in the modest growth of advertising,” said Steven J. Fredericks, president and chief operating officer of CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.
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ONLINE AD SPENDING EXPECTED TO RISE

Adweek IQ Daily Brief, Jan. 15, 2003

Internet ad spending is expected to rise more than 7 percent in 2003, according to a full-year forecast from CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.

Overall ad spending is expected to increase 3.3 percent in 2003 to $117.5 billion, according to CMR. “The spending growth seen in the last half of 2002 was clear evidence of a market rebound, and we believe the current economic upturn, while not robust will continue to be reflected in the modest growth of advertising,” said Steven J. Fredericks, president and chief operating officer of CMR/TNS Media Intelligence.

2003 BOOSTS TRAFFIC TO DIET, ASTROLOGY SITES
br /Adweek Online, Jan. 8, 2003
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br /As the new year approached, Web surfers logged on to diet and fitness sites to gear up for their health-related resolutions and astrology sites to see what was in store for 2003.
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br /During the week ending Dec. 29, more than 3.5 million people logged on to various health, fitness and nutrition Web sites at home, according to the latest report from Nielsen/NetRatings. Leading the pack was AOL Health, which attracted 805,000 unique visitors during the week, and WebMD, which welcomed 521,000 visitors. Of the diet and weight management sites, eDiets.com drew the most visitors, 480,000, while Weight Watchers garnered 302,000.
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br /In the same period, the top two astrology sites attracted more than one million unique visitors. iVillage Astrology recorded 754,000 visitors, while MSN Astrology posted a unique audience of 689,000 visitors. Yahoo Astrology claimed 377,000.

2003 BOOSTS TRAFFIC TO DIET, ASTROLOGY SITES

Adweek Online, Jan. 8, 2003

As the new year approached, Web surfers logged on to diet and fitness sites to gear up for their health-related resolutions and astrology sites to see what was in store for 2003.

During the week ending Dec. 29, more than 3.5 million people logged on to various health, fitness and nutrition Web sites at home, according to the latest report from Nielsen/NetRatings. Leading the pack was AOL Health, which attracted 805,000 unique visitors during the week, and WebMD, which welcomed 521,000 visitors. Of the diet and weight management sites, eDiets.com drew the most visitors, 480,000, while Weight Watchers garnered 302,000.

In the same period, the top two astrology sites attracted more than one million unique visitors. iVillage Astrology recorded 754,000 visitors, while MSN Astrology posted a unique audience of 689,000 visitors. Yahoo Astrology claimed 377,000.

INTERNET USERS MORE TRUSTING OF FINANCIAL ACTIONS
br /Brandweek Online Newsletter, Thursday, January 2, 2002
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br /NEW YORK – U.S. consumers are more trusting when conducting online transactions than they were a year ago, with the most dramatic surge in trust associated with conducting financial transactions online, according to the “Consumer Internet Barometer,” a new quarterly report on Internet activity. The report is produced jointly by NFO WorldGroup (a division of The Interpublic Group of Cos.), Forrester Research and The Conference Board.
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br /More than 33% of consumers surveyed expressed trust that their online financial transactions are safe, up from 27.5% a year ago. Consumers also expressed a greater degree of trust when purchasing products online with 25% saying that their personal information will be safe when purchasing products online, up from 21.9% a year ago. Satisfaction levels for online financial transactions and purchases also improved over the past year.
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br /”Lack of trust has long been a major barrier to engaging in online transactions,” Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center of The Conference Board, said in a statement. “Consumers’ concern about privacy of their personal information has a significant influence on their willingness to engage in business exchanges online. But this trust barrier is beginning to erode.”
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INTERNET USERS MORE TRUSTING OF FINANCIAL ACTIONS

Brandweek Online Newsletter, Thursday, January 2, 2002

NEW YORK – U.S. consumers are more trusting when conducting online transactions than they were a year ago, with the most dramatic surge in trust associated with conducting financial transactions online, according to the “Consumer Internet Barometer,” a new quarterly report on Internet activity. The report is produced jointly by NFO WorldGroup (a division of The Interpublic Group of Cos.), Forrester Research and The Conference Board.

More than 33% of consumers surveyed expressed trust that their online financial transactions are safe, up from 27.5% a year ago. Consumers also expressed a greater degree of trust when purchasing products online with 25% saying that their personal information will be safe when purchasing products online, up from 21.9% a year ago. Satisfaction levels for online financial transactions and purchases also improved over the past year.

“Lack of trust has long been a major barrier to engaging in online transactions,” Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center of The Conference Board, said in a statement. “Consumers’ concern about privacy of their personal information has a significant influence on their willingness to engage in business exchanges online. But this trust barrier is beginning to erode.”

br /JUPITER RESEARCH STUDY ON BROADBAND ADOPTION
br /According to a new study from Jupiter Research, U.S. broadband service providers added approximately 1.3 million net new households in the second quarter of 2002. About 13.1 million households across the country currently use broadband services to connect to the Internet.
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br /The growth of broadband uptake in the U.S. is on pace to meet Jupiter’s forecast of 15.4 million households by the end of this year. However, quarterly growth rates have fallen significantly between 2001 and 2002. Joe Laszlo, Jupiter Research lead broadband analyst, said this is due in part to price sensitivity among would-be users. For the full article visit http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1483471
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JUPITER RESEARCH STUDY ON BROADBAND ADOPTION

According to a new study from Jupiter Research, U.S. broadband service providers added approximately 1.3 million net new households in the second quarter of 2002. About 13.1 million households across the country currently use broadband services to connect to the Internet.

The growth of broadband uptake in the U.S. is on pace to meet Jupiter’s forecast of 15.4 million households by the end of this year. However, quarterly growth rates have fallen significantly between 2001 and 2002. Joe Laszlo, Jupiter Research lead broadband analyst, said this is due in part to price sensitivity among would-be users. For the full article visit http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1483471